University of Tennessee womens basketball coach returns to work one week after giving birth

[Anonymous]

She could be showing up to coach the games and that's it. Letting the assistants run practices and such.

Also, as someone who married into old money, many of my ILs resume their day-to-day lives asap after childbirth. They have nannies and night nurses to care for their kids. The only difference is, is that their day-to-day lives doesn't include work. Just shopping and charity work and lunches and gossip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a place where a C-level exec returned like a week after having her baby. She also, worked remotely three days a week and literally built a play space with a pack and play in the conference room next to her office. Her nanny came to work with her, took care of the kid, took the kid for walks, etc. Mom, basically built a nursey at work and had a nanny. So, for these people, yeah, it's not hard.

The judge I clerked for did a very similar thing. Also, not hard. Now, when I had my kid, I nearly lost my clerkship (this was years ago but this century).

It's the rest of us that are utterly screwed. Once again, rich and powerful people have different rules and work arounds. The laws are to protect us NOT RICH and POWERFUL people.

Same. I knew a COO/co-founder of a company that was working within a day of giving birth. She was also able to set up play pens, WFH, a nanny, etc and worked that way for several years as she had kids. However employees would not have been allowed to do that.

It’s funny how we admire the wealthy who find a way to work with kids, but if a regular worker tried to do that, we would label her as a bad employee AND bad mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her. It's her choice and clearly she feels up to it. She probably loves her job and the kids she coaches.

I was fine a few days after I had all 3 of my kids. If I had a job I loved I could have gone back then if I really wanted to. Everyone is different.

I can't read the article but I assume she is able to have the baby at work and has help with it. The best of both worlds.

And it’s a girls team can you imagine how many helpers she has. It’s fabulous.

What?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her. It's her choice and clearly she feels up to it. She probably loves her job and the kids she coaches.

I was fine a few days after I had all 3 of my kids. If I had a job I loved I could have gone back then if I really wanted to. Everyone is different.

I can't read the article but I assume she is able to have the baby at work and has help with it. The best of both worlds.

And it’s a girls team can you imagine how many helpers she has. It’s fabulous.

I would not want a dozen or more college students around my newborn, myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her. It's her choice and clearly she feels up to it. She probably loves her job and the kids she coaches.

I was fine a few days after I had all 3 of my kids. If I had a job I loved I could have gone back then if I really wanted to. Everyone is different.

I can't read the article but I assume she is able to have the baby at work and has help with it. The best of both worlds.

And it’s a girls team can you imagine how many helpers she has. It’s fabulous.

What?

Right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I felt pretty good a week out. She can sit on a bench, watch the players, and coach. Not a 9-5 by any means.

Just the thought of sitting on a hard bench a week after giving birth is making me shudder and I haven’t had a baby in more than a decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/01/27/kim-caldwell-birth-tennessee-basketball-coach/

Curious about what others think about this. While I think that every woman has the right to do what's best for them, I think it's kind of wild that she's returning to work one week after giving birth, especially since being a basketball coach is more physically taxing than your standard desk job. There's always lots of talk about how there's not enough maternity leave/post-natal care in the US, but this is kind of going against that.

This doesn't tell us anything about the lack of maternity leave and postnatal care in the United States. It just tells us about this particular woman and how she is managing the postpartum period vis-à-vis her career.

It is very well documented that relative to other developed countries, the United States has insufficient maternity leave and postnatal care for both mothers and children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’s also not doing all her responsibilities so she’s not working a normal 8 hour day.

She’s also not fully “coaching” during the game. Her assistant is doing some of the coaching with her guidance.

They won’t win the SEC and won’t even be in NCAA tournament. So all over March 9th.

They’re 15-5 and ranked 18th nationally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a place where a C-level exec returned like a week after having her baby. She also, worked remotely three days a week and literally built a play space with a pack and play in the conference room next to her office. Her nanny came to work with her, took care of the kid, took the kid for walks, etc. Mom, basically built a nursey at work and had a nanny. So, for these people, yeah, it's not hard.

The judge I clerked for did a very similar thing. Also, not hard. Now, when I had my kid, I nearly lost my clerkship (this was years ago but this century).

It's the rest of us that are utterly screwed. Once again, rich and powerful people have different rules and work arounds. The laws are to protect us NOT RICH and POWERFUL people.

Same. I knew a COO/co-founder of a company that was working within a day of giving birth. She was also able to set up play pens, WFH, a nanny, etc and worked that way for several years as she had kids. However employees would not have been allowed to do that.

It’s funny how we admire the wealthy who find a way to work with kids, but if a regular worker tried to do that, we would label her as a bad employee AND bad mom.

This is the SCAM!

And then this is the same boss who railroaded people left and right.

[Anonymous]

Knew a woman who adopted a newborn and went back to her demanding medical job 3 days after bringing the less-than-a-week old baby home.

She has a very, very healthy trust fund, no mortgage, no car payments, etc. and does not need the money.

I didn't understand this. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I felt pretty good a week out. She can sit on a bench, watch the players, and coach. Not a 9-5 by any means.

Just the thought of sitting on a hard bench a week after giving birth is making me shudder and I haven’t had a baby in more than a decade.

Usually the coaches are standing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I felt pretty good a week out. She can sit on a bench, watch the players, and coach. Not a 9-5 by any means.

Just the thought of sitting on a hard bench a week after giving birth is making me shudder and I haven’t had a baby in more than a decade.

Usually the coaches are standing.

She mentions in the article there’s a few things she can’t do like yell, and she relies on her assistant coaches to do much of the instruction during the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s also not doing all her responsibilities so she’s not working a normal 8 hour day.

She’s also not fully “coaching” during the game. Her assistant is doing some of the coaching with her guidance.

They won’t win the SEC and won’t even be in NCAA tournament. So all over March 9th.

They’re 15-5 and ranked 18th nationally.

Okay so maybe they are 10th place in the SEC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Knew a woman who adopted a newborn and went back to her demanding medical job 3 days after bringing the less-than-a-week old baby home.

She has a very, very healthy trust fund, no mortgage, no car payments, etc. and does not need the money.

I didn't understand this. At all.

You don’t understand why wealthy men work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for her. It's her choice and clearly she feels up to it. She probably loves her job and the kids she coaches.

I was fine a few days after I had all 3 of my kids. If I had a job I loved I could have gone back then if I really wanted to. Everyone is different.

I can't read the article but I assume she is able to have the baby at work and has help with it. The best of both worlds.

And it’s a girls team can you imagine how many helpers she has. It’s fabulous.

I would not want a dozen or more college students around my newborn, myself.

You must not be Catholic.